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TIL Winston Churchill was half American. His mother, Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn, New York, later Lady Randolph Churchill, was a noted beauty of her day

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d8p57 TIL Locusts are not a type of animal, it is a condition experienced by some grasshoppers. Many grasshoppers become locusts when they are overcrowded (triggered by legs and arms rubbing together). Once they transform, they grow larger and change colour.
Mb10 TIL “Eating carrots will improve your vision” is actually based in wartime propaganda designed to explain why pilots were able to fly so well at night without revealing the new invention of radar technology to the enemy.
dl9B TIL April 16, 2016 will be the 500 year anniversary of Bavaria adopting the Reinheitsgebot. It is a law that said that the only ingredients that could be used in the production of beer were water, barley and hops. It was later amended to include yeast.
n8Z7 TIL Sandra Bullock is fluent in German
WkOQd TIL of the Cokeville Elementary School Hostage Crisis. Where David Young stormed into a school with his wife, armed a bomb, and held 70+ students hostage. After 2 hours the bomb went off, but due to a series of coincidences, all hostages survived. Children later reported seeing angels.